Perilous Aphrodisiac. The peril and excitement come from other fugu dishes. Most risky is a milky-white preparation of fugu testes that is mixed with hot sake and drunk by eager virility seekers.
For this reason, fugu chefs must undergo a rigorous two-year training before they can work with it, ensuring that each dish ...
Still, fugu remains a high-risk, high-reward dish for those not afraid to gamble with their lives. It might look like an ordinary wild mushroom, but the death cap (Amanita phalloides) is actually ...
"I am really sorry for our customers and employees.” Zuboraya opened in 1920 and has been providing fugu dishes at reasonable prices for generations of local residents and visitors. The ...
FUGU or pufferfish is not something that can be savoured at just any Japanese restaurant as a chef must be licensed to prepare and serve it. Prepared wrongly, consuming fugu can result in death as ...
An old saying states: “Eating fugu is great but risking your life is worse.” Believe it or not, the dish is offered at eateries in Mikawa as part of efforts to revitalize the local community.
The Korean raw dish consisting of octopus tentacles poses a choking hazard and could be fatal. Octopuses are killed before preparing the dish, but due to the highly complex nervous system ...
Yamadaya has been serving puffer fish for over 100 years. Their fugu is caught in southern Japan and airlifted alive to their Tokyo restaurants. In Haedomari Market the fugu is auctioned off using ...